| From: | Stephen Delear <c715591@******.MISSOURI.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Eurowars |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 18:31:17 -0500 |
>At 01:51 PM 5/1/98 -0500, SteveD wrote:
>> Basically yes you can hide a carrier but the Nightwraiths WERE NOT CARRIER
>>LAUNCHED. Carrier landings screw up the avionics is stealth aircraft
>>that's why none of the present ones have tailhooks. Of course it's quite
>>common for present day stealth aircraft to be launched from afar and
>>refulled in mid flight.
>
>Actually, stealth aircraft don't have problems with their avionics being
>screwed up by carrier landings. One of the reasons that they don't have a
>tailhook is that there's not much room inside them for the equipment, since
>everything is internal.
>
>But the big reason they don't do carriers is the paint. All of that cool
>RAM and paint they use to bounce radar reacts BADLY to sea air. All of the
>salt content and stuff corrodes after a few weeks. Same thing happened to
>the Navy's newest F18 (E/F?). The paint all caused it to corrode. But I
>think that they just fixed it with the newest batch 6 months ago (it was
>about 2 years ago that I went to McDonnel Douglas and checked out their
>plant). They will be using the new type on the F22, which isn't quite as
>stealthy as the F177, but pretty close.
F22? I was under the impression that it was a classified aircraft. Then
again I could be thinking of a different aircraft.
SteveD
>
>Sommers
>
Stephen Delear
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